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NY to ID + Thank you & see you soon!

Wowza!

How do Mondays always roll around so quickly? 

Some highlights of this past week are:

-We ate some good homemade ice cream 

-Hna Smith & I were able to go on a surprise sleepover to help some sisters + I was able to sleep on the floor for the first time in my mission #check

-Finally (after many, many & many unsuccessful attempts), we were able to being teaching a part member family that belongs to our ward. Really it was such a miracle. 

-3 friends that we are teaching came to church on Sunday! 

-Hermana Smith. She is a good one! A life-longer! We have so much fun serving together.

This will be my last group email that I will send out & I want to thank you all for the love + support that I have received while serving my mission. 

It has been a dream & a privilege to serve my Heavenly Father over these past 18 months. I know that serving this mission has played a vital role to my eternal progression in this life. I am thankful for ALL of my past companions, members, investigators, areas, memories, tender mercies that I have been able to experience. My relationship with Christ & Heavenly Father has become so much better as I have been learning how to more fully rely and trust in them. I testify that they are ALWAYS there for us. This is the true church of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Christ blesses families. The Book of Mormon is true and has the answers to all of life's questions. It has been an unfailing source of peace to me. I know that Heavenly Father hears, ponders, & answers our prayers! We never have to feel alone because of Christ and He is willing to draw as near to us as we allow Him too.

I love this gospel. 

I love my mission. 

I love my Jesus! 

Thank you thank you thank you for all of your love! 

Light & love,

Hermana Worley

p.s. 

I will be sharing some thoughts about my mission in church on August 26, 2018 @ 9am at 18486 Middleton Rd, Nampa, ID 83687 

There will be an open house at my parents home right after the meeting around 10am at 10569 Rain Springs St. Nampa, ID 83687

........can't wait to give some big hugs!!!!!!!!!

Pictures:

we failed at taking them this week, oops! 

So here are some quick ones for mom! :) 

Sweet as Chocolate Pie

Hey friends + family!

This past week I've reflected much on the sweetness of the gospel that I have experienced in my life. My younger sister Olivia gave a talk in church (that was forward to me) about an experience she had while baking chocolate pie.....

Olivia has always loved to bake! She was the baking QUEEN in the Worley home. When she was younger she was constantly trying new recipies. One day when she was around 9 years old she decided to bake a chocolate pie from a recipe out of a cookbook that was rented from the library My mom wasn't home & little Liv decided to do this on her own. After she made the crust she began to mix the milk in the pan but discovered that we were out of sugar, so she decided to use salt as a substitute because it was similar in shape + size + color. She apparently thought that it could provide the same result that the sugar would. When my mom got home and the pie was tasted!!! Olivia came to discover that when baking its usually important to use and measure exact ingredients!!

I love this story because I know that with the gospel of Christ all of the key ingridents that make a sweet life are laid out for us all. We don't have to seek in other places to find substitute ingredients!!

An miracle happened as we went to go visit a less active family in the ward. We were walking towards their apartment a lady stepped out on her balcony & shouted to us "Are YOU the mormons? I want a book!!!!" So Hna Smith & I headed towards her apartment with a Book of Mormon with a pamphlet explaining the restoration of the church tucked inside!!!

There are souls all around us who are seeking for the truth and it was So exciting to hear one soul shout it from her balcony!

love & light,

Hermana Worley 

Hello friends + family :)

Hello friends + family :)

     This past week I had my first & last zone conference with the New Jersey Morristown Mision! President and Sister Hess are so wonderful. They lead and guide the mission with so much love. Hermana Smith & I gave a training on chapter 2 of PMG, effective studies. I was also asked to share my testimony, along with the other departing missionaries, which left me filled with GREAT gratitude for my mission! 

     The mission had a "2 Hour Power" event last night. Which means we pray together as a mission via a conference call and then for 2 hours we go out finding to bring others closer to Chirst! Hermana Smith and I had so much fun discovering the C.I.N.S. of our friends! 

( C: concerns 

  I: intrests

  N: needs

  S: strengths

we have used this model to be able to help us missionaries understand how to best teach the needs of our friends that we are teaching!)

We felt that we needed to stop by a specific home this evening & while we were there we were able to ask some inspired questions and found her C.I.N.S., and the best part she asked us for member team ups at all of our future lessons. 

We were then gifted an umbrella + juice & vitamin C pills! 

God is good!

Light + love,

Hermana Worley💛

Pictures:

- Hna Jones + I were in a cute town called Goshen. We came across this outdoor piano so of course I had to play a little tune of "I am a Child of God"!!!

-Hna Smith & I were dumped on yesterday! 

Cheers to LEARNING the ropes!

Cheers to LEARNING the ropes!

Hello friends + family :)

It has been so fun to be part of the New Jersey mission. These next weeks are going to be full of learning to things I am now companions with the darling Hermana Smith! She is so lovely and we are going to have such a great time together. 

Some highlights from the week are:

-I'm an official missionary for the New Jersey Morristown Mission!!!

-Missionary Leadership Confrence. A theme that really touched me heart was repentance. We counciled about how true repentance is a change of heart, not a checklist. 

-My eyelashes became a bug trap!!! (Yes this really happened!) Hermana Smith is a mvp for helping remove a bug that flew into my eyelash as we were out tracting. Oh the life of a missionary!

-Exchanges. We went up to Monticello to spend some time with the sisters!

-Fran came to church again & she LOVED it. 

A scripture that Hermana Smith has been sharing with those around us is one of her favorites which is:

1 Nephi 20:10

"For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."

I love this scripture too, because it testifies of how God is ALWAYS mindful of His children. A trial that we experience in life isn't due to the absence of our Father. My belief is that we experience trials because the ultimate goal of this life is to BECOME like our Father. Trials can help us BECOME, if we allow them to. 

May we strive to always rely on Him!

Love + light,

Hermana Worley

Pictures:

-Sister Arnold & I on an exchange...some times you just need a cup of icecream

-Hermana Smith loves horses!!!!

-How pretty is West Point Academy. We were blessed to receive a tour of West Point last P day

-Sister Randall and I!!! 

West Point Academy

Thank you so much for the love and support!

We officially have 2 worleys out in the mission field. I pray for you every day Elder Worley!!! This past week was a good one! I am happy that I get to stay in the area for 6 weeks more!!! Tonight I get to meet with the spanish elders to talk about thier investigators because as of tomorrow they will be my investigators! Which is a little overwhelming but it will all be great! I was able to get a tour of the West Point Academy today, which was so awesome!!!! 

love you all lots!!

Mariah!!!!

4th fun + transfers + circle loop miracle

Hello my people!

How was your week?

Sister Randall and I had a week filled with so many happy things, such as:

-watching fireworks near the Hudson river

-Fran, our friend we are teaching came to church yesterday! She had such a good time + warm welcome from our ward members

-Sister Randall hit hear YEAR MARK!!!!!!!! 

-My piano skills were put to the test for primary at church yesterday

Change is in the air in Middletown, NY

Last night Sister Randall and I found out that she will be heading to another area in NJ!!!! I will be recieving a NJ missionary, Hermana Smith! Our spanish elders are leaving the ward so now Hermana Smith & I will be merging the English area that I have been working in with the Spanish are that the elders were teaching. It will be such a BLAST!

There was an evening when Sister Randall & I prayed for direction on where Heavenly Father wanted us to be. As we looked at our map we spotted a circle loop street that we felt we should go to. When we got there we weren't having much luck. So we RAN around the circle & decided we would stop running when we saw a home with lights on. Then we met Lynn!!!!!! Lynn was so excited to receive us!!!!!!

The miracle part of all of this is that running in a circle in the LAST 1/2 hour of the day can lead you to MILAGROS. 

As Elder Worley said "the Book is blue & the church is true"

Love & light,

Hermana Worley